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McNelis Genealogy Home Page
McNelis Genealogy Home Page
This page is dedicated to the bearers of the name McNelis. It is sometimes written McNellis and
occasionally McNealus or McNeilis or McNeelis. In records, it may also be written McNail,
McNaylis, McNealie, McNeilly, McNealis, McNeil, McNeilis, McNelus, McNeillage, and
McNelos. Almost everyone named McNelis has ancestry in southwest Donegal. In fact, most can
trace their ancestry to one of a few communities. These are Ardara, Kilcar, Glencolumbkille, and
Glenties. Presumably others are from neighboring towns, such as Killybegs or Carrick. In his
"Guide to Irish Surnames," which is regarded by many as the authoritative work on Irish surnames,
under Mac Nelis/Mac Niallghuis, Edward Mac Lysaght states "with the Mac this name is peculiar
to Tirconnell (i.e. Donegal), without the prefix it is found in adjacent areas." The book does not
specify southwestern Donegal. In the original Irish, surnames with Mac or O were written with a
space preceding the second part, e.g. O Donnell (never an apostrophe) or Mac Nelis. It is the
understanding of Frank McNellis of Las Vegas that his family came from Newtown-Saville,
County Tyrone and had been there since 1746. Whether they went to Tyrone from Donegal or
there is a distinct branch of Tyrone McNelises, I don't know. The International Genealogical Index
includes a few years of civil birth registrations and there are several in Tyrone.
The name McNelis in some of its forms has been found in Scotland for centuries. According to
The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History by George Black, the name is
nevertheless of Irish origin, with much of the immigration occurring after 1820. There are several
extracted birth records for McNelis in the International Genealogical Index in Scotland, most in
the Glasgow area, and most quite clearly of recent Irish background. Black also includes an
excerpt from a book written in 1877 that suggests that many McNelis families in Scotland
modified the spellings to McNeil to conceal their origin. Given the general bias against the Irish at
that time, this is not surprising.
Nellis and Grealish are variations on the name, although anyone with those names probably has no
one named McNelis in their lineage. The name Nelis is also a related name, but there are at least
four origins of Nelis. There are Nelis families in the United States of Belgium, Spanish, east
European, and Irish origins. I corresponded with a Nelis was descended from immigrants from
Fintona, County Tyrone. Whether the Nelis family was once McNelis and dropped the "Mc" isn't
known. If so it was a long way back. From my reading of MacLysaght, the names Nelis, Grealish,
and Nellis probably evolved separately, but from the same root. This does not mean that all bearers
of the different names descended at some time from one person. This may be the case for McNelis
however.
News reports from Northern Ireland often contain quotes from Mary Nelis, a prominent nationalist
activist. I believe she is from Derry.
The book states that (Mac) Grealish is a Connaught form of Mac Nelis, and gives as the Irish
spelling Mag Riallghuis. Note that "Mag" is not a typo, many Connaught surnames had a "g"
instead of a "c". The name in Irish is pronounced with an English long e sound (Mc Neil-is), not
Mc Nell-is, although in the United States, and particularly in Philadelphia the McNellis
pronunciation is more common.
Some of the related names have information about them elsewhere. For example, at
http://members.tripod.com/~Bonestwo/index.html information and an e-mail list for McNeilly is
found.
The main goal of this page is to provide a central location for McNelis family information so that
people can figure out more about their McNelis heritage and perhaps find others studying the same
families. I have usually listed only people born before 1900. This is a little sketchy, as is all of the
McNelis information from his period. Much of it predates the records and is based on oral
tradition. It may be that generations are confused. This confusion is further compounded by the
large number of women that died in childbirth and the number of second marriages, often to much
younger women by the widower. Another level of confusion is introduced by the large number of
people with the same name in this area. Irish names are regional and just as the McNelis family all
comes from a small part of Donegal, so also do a few others. The result is that Carr, O'Donnell,
McHugh, Meehan, and about 15 other names appear constantly. Since people didn't move much in
Ireland, you soon were related to a sizable portion of the town. The number of non-relatives
available to marry is few and often several members of one family will marry several members of
another family. It can be difficult to sort them all out.
This page is a work in progress. Over time I will get more information onto it. If your don't see
your family here, write me. I may have other information, or at the least I can add what you know.
I have more recent information in some instances, if you can't find your ancestors because your
information doesn't go back far enough.
This page has the following structure:
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Documenting | the | name | and | its | application | worldwide. | | Includes | the | variants | McNellis, | McNealus, | McNeilis, | McNeelis, | McNail, | McNaylis, | McNealie, | McNeilly, | McNealis, | McNeil, | McNeilis, | McNelus, | McNeillage |
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